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Business Weekly: Connecting the Dots, with Dr Christian Busch

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4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Dr Christian Busch has spent his career studying chance, serendipity, and how to maximise opportunity. He is director of the Center for Global Affairs' Global Economy Program at New York University and his new book, Connect the Dots, analyses the art and science of creating good luck. He joins journalist Rosamund Urwin to talk about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The climate crisis is something many of us feel pretty anxious about and it's already hitting some of the world's poorest hardest

0:06.2

But practical action is a global development charity with 60 years of experience in tackling how to alleviate poverty for those on the front line of

0:13.6

Turbine change people like Pauline from Kenya

0:16.4

Drought has killed nearly all the animals that she and her husband have spent a lifetime looking after and the climate crisis

0:22.0

It doesn't just impact nature. It's decimated her income her savings and it's changing a wider community's way of life

0:28.5

But practical action believes that where there's action there's hope practical action have introduced solar powered irrigation and her training people such as Pauline to grow vegetables

0:38.2

With support she now grows a number of different crops and sells them for enough profit to keep her children fed and in school

0:44.8

With your help practical action can do even more regenerating depleted land into productive farms

0:50.2

Repurposing waste into energy and helping to overcome injustice for women and vulnerable groups

0:55.3

Please take action today and turn your hope for a better future into reality

0:59.5

Your donation can help build a world where the lives and livelihoods of the world's poorest people are no longer at the mercy of climate change or environmental degradation while there's still time

1:09.6

Visit practicalaction.org to get involved

1:13.0

Hello, I'm journalist and presenter Ritala Shah. I want to let you know about an event I'm hosting for Intelligent Square on the 9th of October in London

1:22.2

I'll be talking to Michael Lewis the renowned author of best-selling books including Moneyball, The Big Short, Flash Boys and Liars Poca

1:30.8

We're going to be discussing his most anticipated work to date

1:34.6

Going infinite the rise and fall of a new tycoon

1:38.4

It's a gripping real-time narrative telling the story of Sam Bankman Freed

1:43.4

Who became the world's youngest billionaire before his 30th birthday

1:47.7

And was behind one of the most catastrophic financial meltdowns of the 21st century

1:53.4

Lewis was granted unprecedented access to his subject, allowing him to witness Bankman Freed's entire tumultuous journey

2:01.2

We'll learn all about this unconventional figure who nonchalantly wore cargo shorts and played video games while giving interviews

2:09.1

But remained a mystery even to his investors

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